Editorial: Gondola for a Train Station with No Trains
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Remind us how this is the Grand Central Station of the West again?
Single-File Laws in Upstate NY Towns Are Legal Traps for Bicyclists
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Cyclists love riding the scenic roads in the Hudson River valley, but a Draconian municipal law could have cops ticketing riders and even throwing them in jail if they ride side by side.
Today’s Headlines
|- For transit to work well, L.A. needs bus-only lanes (LA Times)
- LA Metro will hold public meetings on Sepulveda Transit Corridor project (Daily News, NBC)
- Concord offers free bus rides for a year (SF Gate)
- Ten common, wrong, myths about bike lanes (Guardian)
- Oakland adopts forward-looking bike plan (SF Gate)
- A tiny town makes its parking charges rational (CityLab)
- Construction to begin on rerouting, widening Highway 132–planned since the 1950s–in Modesto (Modesto Bee)
- Temecula to widen a road, flattening a hill, because that will fix Sunday afternoon congestion (Press Enterprise)
- Newsom is really mad at oil and gas regulator he fired over fracking, conflict of interest charges (Sacramento Bee)
- Chevron fills a canyon with oil (Sacramento Bee)
- Cap-and-trade is raising the price of polluting–in Europe (Marketplace)
- Upcoming meeting to discuss plans to widen the shoulders of Highway 395 (Record Courier)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
NoHo-Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit Project Faces Misleading Eagle Rock NIMBYs
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Eagle Rock BRT opponents call buses "third world." Supporters know it will serve key mobility, equity, and environmental needs.
Can Tom Maguire Become San Francisco’s Transportation Rock Star?
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Maguire to become interim director of an agency in crisis. No pressure Tom.
A Federal Bill Would Help Fund Complete Streets
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Sen. Ed Markey from Massachusetts is starting to put some (vegan) meat on the bones of the Green New Deal.
Today’s Headlines
|- Some transit agencies are offering riders discounted Lyft, Uber fares (Route Fifty)
- The next generation of bike advocates (San Francisco Bicycle Coalition)
- Newsom moves to fire top regulator after questions about increased fracking permits, conflicts of interest (AP News)
- Boston tries a “people-protected bike lane” protest (Boston Magazine)
- An epic bike trip creates a bicyclist (Self)
- Autonomous vehicles:
- Were wildly overpromised (Fast Company)
- But the technology is so cheap! (Wired)
- Will struggle with how and where to drop off passengers (Forbes)
- Can Congress reverse rising trend of pedestrian deaths? (Curbed)
- Congress working on federal highway bill (Route Fifty)
- Catch the symbolism in your daily commute (Quartz)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
It Took a Village to Make This Overland Avenue Crosswalk Safer
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Several modest improvements - new signage, pedestrian head-start signal, flashing yellow right-turn arrow - made one well-used Westside crosswalk much safer
Tactical Urbanism — With Toilet Plungers
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Turning mixing zones into plunger zones led to a huge increase in safe driving.
Today’s Headlines
|- Libraries are launching bike-share programs (US News)
- How design is being upended by climate crisis (Curbed)
- Bill would increase rebates for electric cars (Sacrament Bee, Courthouse News)
- New York bicyclists stage a “die-in” to protest recent deaths (NY Daily News)
- Lompoc seeks residents’ input on pedestrian needs (KEYT)
- FTA allocates $ for rail projects in CA–for L.A. Metro– as well as AZ, WA (Mass Transit)
- There are bigger problems than fare evasion on BART (Systemic Failure)
- Exploring the notion of cap-and-trade for cars (E&E News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Annual LADOT Bikeway Implementation Continues Dismal Trend
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Though LADOT has done several worthwhile new and upgraded bikeways, overall total mileage is a dismal failure: less than 5 miles of new on-street bikeway in the past year.